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Booking is now available for our up-coming Digital Skills Workshops. If you have any questions, please just email the LDC and ask.
To attend a workshop, please book a place in advance as spaces are limited.
If you have booked a place, but could no longer attend, please cancel your booking using the instructions in the booking email confirmation or by emailing LDC_HLS@gcu.ac.uk as soon as possible to allow other students to book that place.
Note: If you have any additonal access needs, please email the LDC_HLS@gcu.ac.uk and let us know.
Getting the most of Microsoft 365 - Word, OneDrive, Outlook
(online session)
Getting the most of Microsoft 365 - Word, OneDrive, Outlook
(online session)
Thursday 18 September 2pm-3pm
Thursday 18 September 2pm-3pm
OneDrive
Word tools (dictate, share document, easy formatting, proofreading tools)
Outlook - email, calendar and To Do lists
Surveys (online session)
Surveys (online session)
Thursday 2 October 10am-11:30am
Thursday 2 October 10am-11:30am
Designing your survey and survey questions
Ethics and GDPR considerations
Choosing a platform
Common issues
Downloading your data
Creating effective presentations with PowerPoint (on campus session)
Creating effective presentations with PowerPoint (on campus session)
Friday 10 October 1pm-3pm
Friday 10 October 1pm-3pm
Preparing a presentation – general content and structure
Structuring your slides by using different slide layout and multilevel lists
Using graphics – images and diagrams
Slide Themes and Design ideas
Running and controlling the presentation
Academic posters Q&A (online session)
Academic posters Q&A (online session)
Monday 13 October 1pm-2:30pm
Monday 13 October 1pm-2:30pm
You will be sent a link to a 30min video to watch in advance of the session and you will have an opportunity to ask questions and participate in a discussion over some example posters.
Please watch the video (opens in a new tab) before the session!
Q&A and discussion session
Understanding AI and Generative AI (online session)
Understanding AI and Generative AI (online session)
Tuesday 21 October 2pm-3pm
Tuesday 21 October 2pm-3pm
Introduction to AI and Generative AI - concepts, implications and considerations.
Terminology and how it works
Understanding the benefits and the limitations of GenAI
Cautions, advice and tips
Excel for basic data analysis and data presenting (on campus session)
Excel for basic data analysis and data presenting (on campus session)
Tuesday 28 October 2pm-4pm
Tuesday 28 October 2pm-4pm
Entering data
Quick calculations
Filtering and sorting and manipulating data
Presenting your data visually
Quick reporting from your data (pivot tables)
Microsoft Word for Dissertation (online session)
Microsoft Word for Dissertation (online session)
Thursday 6 November 11am-12noon
Thursday 6 November 11am-12noon
Q&A session
Tips and tricks
Please watch the video tutorials first! You will first be asked a few questions about the type of document you are creating and you will be lead to a page with a list short of video tutorials tailored to what you need.
Introduction to SPSS (on campus session)
Introduction to SPSS (on campus session)
Thursday 20 November 10am-12noon
Thursday 20 November 10am-12noon
Variables and values
Selecting parts of the data file (filtering)
Graphs and charts
Recoding variables
How to do frequency statistics, crosstabulation, etc.
Importing data from Excel files into SPSS and auto-coding it
Note: This session will only cover the use of SPSS to do basic data manipulation and will not cover statistics or result interpretation.
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